The pastime of jumping into or over the top of a hedge.

Of a road, street, etc., having a hedge running along one or both edges.

A hamlet in Winterborne Stickland parish, north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8206). / A town and civil parish with a town council in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4912).

(archaic, slang) The shooting of small birds around hedges.

A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5536).

(bookmaking) To place bets with a third party in order to offset potential losses. / (idiomatic) To reduce the risk of making a mistake, by keeping one's options open.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hedge one's bets

simple past tense and past participle of hedge one's bets

The ground ivy.

(chiefly US, dated, idiomatic) Having no physically attractive characteristics, but not blatantly ugly; very plain in appearance.